Varcoe, Jeremy

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Jeremy Varcoe currently serves as an Asylum Judge in the United Kingdom hearing appeals of immigrants who have failed in their first effort to gain asylum. He counts among a select minority of judges who has had significant experience in the British Foreign Service prior to his appointment as a judge. The former British Ambassador to Somalia, Jeremy Varcoe has also served in Nigeria, Zambia, Malaysia, and Turkey. His international work goes beyond immigration law and diplomacy to include education. In the mid-1990s Ambassador Varcoe worked first as president of United World Colleges an international group of secondary schools. Contact the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: http://icfrc.org/contact/ DVD .vob format converted to Flash 7.0 video for display. - [James McCue] Today's program has been made possible through the cooperation of International Programs at the University of Iowa, with additional support from Technigraphics, and Mike Margolin. John and Carolyn Gross, the owners of Technigraphics, and Mike Margolin are here, could ya put your hand up so we can see who you are? Okay. If you wanna thank them after the program, why, by all means do. Okay, and now, Rudy Colloredo-Mansfeld, also a member of the program committee, will introduce today's speaker. - [Rudy Colloredo-Mansfeld] Thank you Jim. I'm very pleased to announce today's speaker, Jeremy Varcoe, who is also my father in law. Jeremy received his law degree from Oxford University in 1961, and was subsequently called to the bar in 1966, but his career went in quite a different...

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